DCTC AMA Members to Attend Digital Marketing Conference in Duluth, MN

The Student Senate agreed to sponsor 8 DCTC AMA official members to attend the Zenith DigitalMarketing Conference on Thursday, April 27 (all day). Six students can get a ride with me up to Duluth in a state van. Two other students can drive on their own, which tends to be the case on these types of trips; some people may want to spend more time in Duluth.

We will leave promptly at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 27 from the front entrance of DCTC to drive to the conference. We will leave at 2:30 p.m. from Duluth to be back to DCTC by 5 p.m. if we don’t hit too much traffic.

There are three tracks at the conference from which to choose, which you can see on the agenda. You need to tell me which track you choose on the attached form. Write it on top of the form:

1. Paid track

2. Organic track

3. Measurement track

The first eight AMA members, who fill out the attached form and email it back to Carie.Statz@dctc.edu AND Anna.Voight@dctc.edu, will get to go on the trip. The first SIX of these eight AMA members, who give me the fill out form AND tell me they need a ride the morning of April, 27th to the conference, will get a ride. (You can print off the form, fill it out, take a picture with your smartphone, and email to me AND Anna.Voight@dctc.edu. Or you can fill it out and get to Anna at the Student Life office asap.) YOU MUST BE 18 YEARS OLD TO ATTEND.

Carie Statz is a marketing and sales instructor. She began teaching at DCTC in 1998.
Carie is pursuing her doctorate in business administration (DBA), has a master's degree in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has a bachelor's degree in from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where she minored in Spanish and majored in mass communications with an emphasis on advertising and public relations.
At the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico, she pursued general studies in Spanish and anthropology. She also attended the Grantsmanship Training Program at Marquette University.
Carie continues her education through software upgrades and Web applications. She also attends seminars, courses, and conferences covering new trends in marketing and graphic design.
Her nonprofit marketing experience includes supervisory positions at DCTC, UWM, and the Community Action Program of Janesville, Wisconsin. Her for-profit experience includes work for Walt Disney World, Oscar Mayer Foods, and TCF Bank of Wisconsin.
Carie published "How the News Media Affects the Public's Perception of Crime" as her thesis.
In 2003 and 2007, Carie was nominated as "DCTC Instructor of the Year." As DCTC's marketing director, she won several awards for marketing materials, including radio and television commercials as well as viewbooks and catalogs. In 2003, she won the Silver IABC Award for designing the college's 2002-2003 viewbook.
Regarding her teaching philosophy, Carie strives to "bring the real world into the classroom as much as possible so students are prepared for work upon graduation."
The best part of her job as a DCTC instructor is hearing from internship supervisors about how they would rather hire a prepared student from DCTC than another student from a four-year college.
Carie is a member of the American Marketing Association and does volunteer work for Treasurers of the Heart and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity.